1957 - Danny and the Juniors got their big break when they were asked to fill in for Little Anthony & the Imperials on Dick Clark's American Bandstand. Their performance of At the Hop sent the song to number 1 a month later.

1969 - Cindy Birdsong of the Supremes was kidnapped by a maintenance worker from her apartment building and had to jump out of his moving car on the San Diego Freeway to escape.

1969 - George Harrison joined Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, including Eric Clapton, for the rest of their current tour.

1973 - The members of the Who are arrested in Montreal for allegedly destroying a hotel suite.

1974 - Ravi Shankar had to leave a tour with George Harrison to be treated for chest pains in Chicago.

1981 - Dreamgirls opened on Broadway. The show was loosely based on the career of the Supremes.

1983 - MTV aired the full version of Michael Jackson's Thriller for the first time.

1991 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Shirelles, B.J. Thomas and Gene Pitney, saying they were owed $1.2 million in royalties.

1995 - The Guinness Book of World Records named The Sign by Ace of Base as the biggest selling debut record of all time.

1996 - Adam Duritz of Counting Crows severed a ligament and tore cartilage in his knee when he fell during a show in New York.

1997 - A man was killed during a Rolling Stones concert when he fell from the balcony of the Pontiac Silverdome.

1997 - A Philadelphia record store filed what would become a class-action lawsuit against EMI, Sony, WEA, Universal, Bartlesman and Polydor, saying that they had “conspired to raise, fix and maintain at artificially high and non-competitive levels the wholesale prices of CDs.”

1998 - Jimmy Buffett did a benefit concert in Mobile, AL for the victims of hurricane Georges.

2000 - Thieves broke into the home of Madonna and Guy Ritchie in London.

2000 - The Smashing Pumpkins played their last show in Chicago.

2002 - Liam Gallagher of Oasis was arrested after kicking a police officer during a fight.

2003 - Simon and Garfunkel performed in New York for the first time in ten years.